Better Call Saul: Vince Gilligan Reveals the One Thing He Would Change About This Week’s Penultimate Episode (‘I Dropped the Ball on That One’)
Even Emmy-winning TV producers make mistakes.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, who also co-created the spinoff Better Call Saul and wrote and directed this week’s penultimate episode, admitted that he messed up a key detail in the script for the episode, titled “Waterworks.” (Read our full recap here.)
“In this last episode, which I’m very pleased with and was a group effort like they all are, I realized Gene, at the very end of the final act, he should’ve been talking to Jeff on his Bluetooth earpiece,” Gilligan told reporters during the Saul panel on Wednesday at the Television Critics Association virtual press tour. “Because we had made a point in the previous episode that he was back to being Saul with the earpiece. I dropped the ball on that one when I wrote the episode.”
He also has a lingering regret from his days on Breaking Bad, he added: “Aaron Paul’s teeth were too perfect. This poor guy just got the living s–t kicked out of him time and time again, story-wise, and also he smoked a lot of meth, and his teeth were just like Cary Grant perfect.” His Saul co-creator Peter Gould reminded him that he could go back and change that, but Gilligan declined to tinker with the past: “I’m not gonna do that George Lucas stuff.”
The Better Call Saul series finale airs Monday at 9/8c on AMC. Hit the comments below and tell us: What are you hoping to see in the final hour?
Glad Vince acknowledged this, the episode was literally unwatchable because of it.
lost my coffee on that one – nice!
Walt is not dead, the police told the radio to say he was to lure jesse out if hiding.
The next spin off should be about Skyler being harrassed by a gang who think she is hiding money ,
Nobody wants a spin off about Skyler, man.
Youre right the only acceptable spin-offs are huel and flynn
Huell could have his own show and carry it. I would watch that character eat a sandwich for 20 minutes.
Can anyone explain why his University of American Samoa diploma says “ Saul Goodman” when he graduated years before he chose that name? He was Jimmy McGill and still working in the HHM mailroom, remember?
Because Saul is smart and photo shopped his new name onto it!!!
And the diploma appeared in the Breaking Bad episode where Skyler goes to Saul’s office, and it read Saul Goodman.
In last episode it’s stated Mike, Gus and Lalo are all dead. If I treat Better Call Saul as a stand alone series, how does the audience know this? I saw Lalo killed, but not Mike or Gus.
The audience knows this because Jimmy/Saul/Gene says it in the episode. That’s why that line was necessary. You find out right when Kim does.
Thx. Watching series with friend who doesn’t know Breaking Bad – and sadly not sure if I can get him to re-watch it with me. Have made reference that specific characters/story line also in BB but trying to leave Saul as great stand alone series for him. Hate to see it end next week!
You also have to apply a grain of salt to it, you’re taking that line as fact because you know it to be true. This is series that has constantly brought characters back from the dead. How many times did Jimmy think Lalo was dead? To be fair, Jimmy never even saw Mike die. Walt’s death would have been all over the news, but Mike? He took Walt’s word for that one.
Another screw up in the Penultimate Episode was the shot of Saul’s diploma from Samoa on the wall, which had the name Saul Goodman, when at the time he earned the diploma his name was Jimmy McGill.
That’s not a screw up lmao. You really think the jerk of a lawyer that Jimmy becomes wouldn’t fake a diploma so that his clients don’t know his real name?
Also Skyler saw the diploma in Breaking Bad when she visited his office and it stated Saul Goodman.
Gene/Saul goes back to being Jimmy and he and Kim try to live a normal life.
They both resume practicing the law.